It appears that, prior to
traveling into Syria, Kayla Mueller had been in Israel and participated in
several provocative anti-Israel actions with ISM.

According to Lee Kaplan, the head
of Stop the ISM group and an investigative journalist, Mueller was a member of
ISM and worked for at least two years with that Palestinian terror-supporting
group.

Kaplan writes that Mueller was
involved in anti-Jewish activity in Jerusalem as part of the ISM-provoked
demonstrations by occupying properties in Shekh Jarrah after the Israel Israeli
court had judged belonged to Jews forced to vacate in face of the advancing Jordanian
army in 1948. There she stayed with the Al-Kurd family.

Kayla Mueller took part in
provocative demonstrations to prevent the IDF from demolishing the homes of
convicted terrorists and suicide bombers after the courts had given the
authority for their demolition. Her presence Bil’in was confirmed by Abdullah
Abu Rahma, who is the coordinator of protest actions in the village.

Mueller published emotive letters
online as she demonstrated at often violent confrontations with Israeli
security forces during 2010-2011.

She wrote this to describe the
result of one violent provocation she participated in which rocks were thrown;

“The smell and taste of tear gas has lodged itself
in the pores of my throat and the skin around my nose, mouth and eyes. It still
burns when I close them. It still hangs in the air like invisible fire burning
the oxygen I breathe. When I cry tears for this land, my eyes still sting.”

In her letter
of October 29, 2010, she never mentioned the violence initiated on the
Palestinian side, but Mueller lies in her letters. She
accused "religious settlers" of rock-throwing while attending "non-violent"
protests when in fact it was the Palestinian Arab youth with who she was
embedded that were the rock throwers.

It would be
interesting to discover if her move into Syria was initiated by ISM. If so,
they bear a heavy responsibility for her death.

ISM claims on its website that it
wants to destroy Israel by ‘non-violent, direct action’ but it also says
it supports ‘every type of Palestinian resistance against the Zionists.’ This
support for ‘every type of Palestinian resistance includes sheltering and
assisting the movement of terrorists and suicide bombers and attempts to thwart
the actions of Israeli security forces in pursuit of these terrorists.

ISM played a significant role by
providing direct support to the 2 suicide bombers from Britain responsible for
the Mikes Place explosion in Tel Aviv in 2003. Israel’s General Security
Service reported with evidence that the two terrorists were careful to base
their presence in Judea & Samaria by forging links with members of the
International Solidarity Movement.

ISM sheltered
in its office, Shadi Sukia, a leading member of Islamic Jihad.

Speaking as someone deeply involved
in researching terrorism, and one of the founders of the Netanya Terror Victims Organization, I want to know why brain-washed, terrorist-supporting
anti-Semites who join radical action groups like ISM, and come to Israel to
carry out anti-Israel actions in support of Palestinian provocateurs and
terrorists, are feted in the Western media and by governments as ‘peace
activists’?

ISM will portray Mueller as an
innocent martyr for human rights as part of their ongoing recruitment.

People had better understand the fanaticism
and lies of Israel’s opponents so that future Kayla’s may be spared the ordeal.

Barry Shaw is the author of ‘Israel
Reclaiming the Narrative.’www.israelnarrative.com He is also the Special Consultant on
Delegitimization Issues to the Strategic Dialogue Center at Netanya Academic
College.